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By Gerry Turner - Global Head of Platform as a Service at Vela
For many financial trading firms, having a robust pre-trade risk system is likely to feel like one of those unpleasant but unavoidable costs of doing business. A fair amount of pain, not very much gain.
Consider the potential upside. Gaining any kind of competitive advantage from having an in-house pre-trade risk system can be extremely expensive. Anything that offers demonstrable benefits typically will involve FPGA technology and a high amount of cost in terms of development and ongoing operations.
Then consider the...